Be careful with your terminology. The correct spelling is "DVD-RW" with a dash, to distinguish it from DVD-RAM and DVD+RW (with a plus).
Also, the bottom-end eMac (schools only) comes with a vanilla CD drive, intentionally without burning capabilities. If the kids want to copy files, they'll have to use their iPods.:-)
Not MPEG-4 compliant. They use selected bits and pieces of draft versions of the standard, plus proprietary stuff. Kinda like the difference between MSIE6 and Mozilla.
Other technologies that report to be MPEG-4 compliant, yet are not contained in an.mp4 file, will not interoperate with QuickTime 6 or other MPEG-4 players. Divx and MPEG-4 from Microsoft are common examples.
Divx might be a valid MPEG-4 codec, but they apparently don't use the MPEG-4 file format.
Apple developed its own ISO-compliant MPEG-4 video codec to provide the highest quality results across a wide spectrum of data rates - from narrowband to broadband and beyond. This revolutionary codec offers compression times and video quality that rival those of the best proprietary codecs available, yet it provides true interoperability with other MPEG-4 players and devices.
Yes, *nix players will still be locked out if content producers choose to use Sorenson. But now Apple is saying that there's a decent alternative.
Has anyone done side-by-side tests of Sorenson/Apple MP4/Divx/etc?
MPEG-4 File Format (.mp4): Since the QuickTime file format is at the foundation of MPEG-4, QuickTime 6 supports.mp4 files as first-class citizens. So with QuickTime 6, you can author professional-quality, ISO-compliant MPEG-4 audio and video files that can be played back not only by QuickTime 6, but by any other MPEG-4-compliant player.
Learn more about MPEG-4.
In other words, this has the ability to kill all the crap about "you need FOO player to see this video".
depressing when you find a bug that you find serious and notice it getting pushed from M18 to 0.9.1 to 0.9.5 to 1.0 to post 1.1
dnaumov, please post some Bugzilla numbers so we can see what you're talking about. I've submitted lots of bugs, and 90% of them have been resolved acceptably, even if it wasn't the answer I wanted.
For all we know, you could be asking for stuff like "I want to be able to dragdrop a picture of my face onto the toolbar and use it as the throbber".
Neverwinter Nights is a perfect example of how a game should be published - cross-platform, same box.
Except that the most important part of the game is Windows-only. I currently own only Macs, but if the Wine group gets Aurora running, I'll snag a spare PC and install Linux.
You can be brain dead and still alive. I believe that doctors are no longer allowed to list cardiac arrest as cause of death
You are incorrect on both counts. I know this because my wife is a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins (just like Dr Hibbert). Brain death == dead. Heart death is usually dead too, but with stuff like LVAD sometimes you get lucky.
...for MSIE's product manager saying that OS X is slow when the truth is that table rendering in the Tasman engine is the real problem. Chimera shows that the problem isn't OS X, it's bloated browsers.
Apple is obviously glad the Chimera project exists, and they're probably contributing code to it, but iBrowse is not an obvious conclusion. iSoftware is all about easy-to-use media tools that drive people to the Mac. iMovie, for example, set off a huge boom in personal filmmaking. But everyone already knows how to use a standard web browser.
In MSIE 5.1.x, command-shift-click does exactly the same thing. Unfortunately I don't think there's a way to make that the default behavior.
In the Mozilla family, I find tabbed browsing thoroughly superior to multiple windows.
If Chimera continues to progress, it should surpass Omniweb in all respects some time this year. I'll probably switch from Mozilla to Chimera around 0.6
Okay, let's drive this point home. Even if you don't care about DOM scripting, there are other reasons why Mozilla is considered the most compliant of all current browsers.
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If power users want to try their hands with wobbly features and additional instability risks, we have nightly builds of the wild-west trunk
Hmm...I've been using nightly/latest-trunk builds for the past several months. I'm using 2002052403 right now. It certainly is not my idea of "wild west". In particular, the one unsupported feature that I want (ask before loading an image) was removed from latest-trunk 10 days ago.
don't want to get into a debate over which is closer to 100% compatible.
As far as the DOM goes, there is no debate. Mozilla is much much much closer than Opera. Pretty much any DHTML effect beyond simple hovers will not work in Opera.
Don't get me wrong, Opera is an great idea, and I'm glad it's progressing. But from a modern web design point of view, Opera is right down there with Netscape 4.
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Thanks for the suggestion. Where should one go to keep track of what features and what bugs are in a particular build?
Also, where is this "wild-west" repository? I don't see anything like that in http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/
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two options. You can temporarily disable the feature. Or you can rewrite the whole thing
Truth is a three-edged sword. They could also have removed the button from the prefs dialog, but left the code there. Power users could activate it by hand-editing, with the understanding that it's unsupported and buggy.
[opera.com] would indicate Opera is very nearly 100% standards compliant
You should read that page more closely. For example:
We are currently working on DOM [...] Modifying the document structure is not yet possible (ie. you cannot add or remove HTML elements). [...] Opera does not support W3C DOM Core [other than a dozen specific methods]
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At least a few Mozilla programmers apparently are losing a whole lot of sleep trying to get 1.0final out the door. Take a look at bug 110112 comment 62 (paste the link to avoid the slashdot ban):
Synopsis: there are various crashes and freezes when using the "ask me before loading an image" option. In a bad imitation of Solomon's judgement, they decided to stop the crashes by eliminating the option.
QE cannot physically run on systems with less than 16mb of ram and less than Radeon quality performance. It's not Apple's fault
It is certainly Apple's fault, because they aren't trying hard enough. Apple's own Java group demonstrated one year ago that it's totally feasible to have hardware acceleration on Rage 128. (BTW, read the MacSlash article and you'll see very familiar discussion).
While it may be true that the exact feature set of Quartz Extreme cannot be achieved on a Rage 128, it is clearly false that they couldn't provide some level of boost to older GPUs. Apple chooses not to bother, and that choice merits complaint.
That machine is ancient in Mac-time. [...] I went out and bought a DP 800 G4 so I could play too.
DP800 means you got a Quicksilver, released in Summer/Fall 2001. If I bought a PowerBook in the same time frame, it would have been a Mercury, with the exact same Rage 128 AGP 2x as Pismo.
...disappointing and downright rude if you've got 1+ month old iBook, a 5+ month old iMac, or a 9+ month old PowerBook. In other words, the majority of Macs sold in the past year (and 95% of OSX-capable Macs sold before that) cannot use Quartz Extreme.
Hardware graphics acceleration for my Pismo is not an unreasonable request!
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DVD R/W
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Be careful with your terminology. The correct spelling is "DVD-RW" with a dash, to distinguish it from DVD-RAM and DVD+RW (with a plus).
Also, the bottom-end eMac (schools only) comes with a vanilla CD drive, intentionally without burning capabilities. If the kids want to copy files, they'll have to use their iPods.
Actually, Quicktime supports VBR as of version 4.1 or higher.
mpeg-4 codecs for WMP
Not MPEG-4 compliant. They use selected bits and pieces of draft versions of the standard, plus proprietary stuff. Kinda like the difference between MSIE6 and Mozilla.
Yet Another Quote from Apple:
Divx might be a valid MPEG-4 codec, but they apparently don't use the MPEG-4 file format.
That would be correct, except for this little tidbit:
Yes, *nix players will still be locked out if content producers choose to use Sorenson. But now Apple is saying that there's a decent alternative.
Has anyone done side-by-side tests of Sorenson/Apple MP4/Divx/etc?
In other words, this has the ability to kill all the crap about "you need FOO player to see this video".
depressing when you find a bug that you find serious and notice it getting pushed from M18 to 0.9.1 to 0.9.5 to 1.0 to post 1.1
dnaumov, please post some Bugzilla numbers so we can see what you're talking about. I've submitted lots of bugs, and 90% of them have been resolved acceptably, even if it wasn't the answer I wanted.
For all we know, you could be asking for stuff like "I want to be able to dragdrop a picture of my face onto the toolbar and use it as the throbber".
Neverwinter Nights is a perfect example of how a game should be published - cross-platform, same box.
Except that the most important part of the game is Windows-only. I currently own only Macs, but if the Wine group gets Aurora running, I'll snag a spare PC and install Linux.
No. Airport is a brand name, just like ZoomAir, WaveLan, AirConnect, or AiroNet. Does that make it clear?
Or are you still confused about the whole Kleenex/Tissue problem?
You can be brain dead and still alive. I believe that doctors are no longer allowed to list cardiac arrest as cause of death
You are incorrect on both counts. I know this because my wife is a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins (just like Dr Hibbert). Brain death == dead. Heart death is usually dead too, but with stuff like LVAD sometimes you get lucky.
Don't be so stingy. Why not do a full set:
That plus for source code and you've still got half the disc left for a divx of MechaGodzilla or something.
...for MSIE's product manager saying that OS X is slow when the truth is that table rendering in the Tasman engine is the real problem. Chimera shows that the problem isn't OS X, it's bloated browsers.
Apple is obviously glad the Chimera project exists, and they're probably contributing code to it, but iBrowse is not an obvious conclusion. iSoftware is all about easy-to-use media tools that drive people to the Mac. iMovie, for example, set off a huge boom in personal filmmaking. But everyone already knows how to use a standard web browser.
In MSIE 5.1.x, command-shift-click does exactly the same thing. Unfortunately I don't think there's a way to make that the default behavior.
In the Mozilla family, I find tabbed browsing thoroughly superior to multiple windows.
If Chimera continues to progress, it should surpass Omniweb in all respects some time this year. I'll probably switch from Mozilla to Chimera around 0.6
Okay, let's drive this point home. Even if you don't care about DOM scripting, there are other reasons why Mozilla is considered the most compliant of all current browsers.
FYI, the founder of Opera is also the chief author of the CSS1 standard. So you might be surprised to know that Mozilla has better CSS support than Opera.
If power users want to try their hands with wobbly features and additional instability risks, we have nightly builds of the wild-west trunk
Hmm...I've been using nightly/latest-trunk builds for the past several months. I'm using 2002052403 right now. It certainly is not my idea of "wild west". In particular, the one unsupported feature that I want (ask before loading an image) was removed from latest-trunk 10 days ago.
don't want to get into a debate over which is closer to 100% compatible.
As far as the DOM goes, there is no debate. Mozilla is much much much closer than Opera. Pretty much any DHTML effect beyond simple hovers will not work in Opera.
Don't get me wrong, Opera is an great idea, and I'm glad it's progressing. But from a modern web design point of view, Opera is right down there with Netscape 4.
Thanks for the suggestion. Where should one go to keep track of what features and what bugs are in a particular build?
Also, where is this "wild-west" repository? I don't see anything like that in http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/
two options. You can temporarily disable the feature. Or you can rewrite the whole thing
Truth is a three-edged sword. They could also have removed the button from the prefs dialog, but left the code there. Power users could activate it by hand-editing, with the understanding that it's unsupported and buggy.
You should read that page more closely. For example:
At least a few Mozilla programmers apparently are losing a whole lot of sleep trying to get 1.0final out the door. Take a look at bug 110112 comment 62 (paste the link to avoid the slashdot ban):
1 12 #c62
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110
Synopsis: there are various crashes and freezes when using the "ask me before loading an image" option. In a bad imitation of Solomon's judgement, they decided to stop the crashes by eliminating the option.
exactly what I said? 10.2 will see exceleration on your Pismo
Totally unrelated. 10.2 will be faster because it's compiled with GCC3. That has nothing to do with offloading graphics tasks to the GPU.
We could just as well get the benefits of GCC3 if Apple used it to compile 10.1.5, and sent it out via Software Update.
pismo didnt have AGP 2x
Thank you for playing, please try again
QE cannot physically run on systems with less than 16mb of ram and less than Radeon quality performance. It's not Apple's fault
It is certainly Apple's fault, because they aren't trying hard enough. Apple's own Java group demonstrated one year ago that it's totally feasible to have hardware acceleration on Rage 128. (BTW, read the MacSlash article and you'll see very familiar discussion).
While it may be true that the exact feature set of Quartz Extreme cannot be achieved on a Rage 128, it is clearly false that they couldn't provide some level of boost to older GPUs. Apple chooses not to bother, and that choice merits complaint.
That machine is ancient in Mac-time. [...] I went out and bought a DP 800 G4 so I could play too.
DP800 means you got a Quicksilver, released in Summer/Fall 2001. If I bought a PowerBook in the same time frame, it would have been a Mercury, with the exact same Rage 128 AGP 2x as Pismo.
In other words: the top-end mobile Mac available at any price only 8 months ago, which was specifically advertised as being a dream machine for video & graphics professionals, cannot use Quark Extreme. That's just plain wrong.
...disappointing and downright rude if you've got 1+ month old iBook, a 5+ month old iMac, or a 9+ month old PowerBook. In other words, the majority of Macs sold in the past year (and 95% of OSX-capable Macs sold before that) cannot use Quartz Extreme.
Hardware graphics acceleration for my Pismo is not an unreasonable request!